I am of course twenty years older than the original series viewings (although I watched some Pertwee before the revival), but I didn't get the feeling of the in-one-bound ending from the multi-parters. More sustained re-viewing may reveal the necessary padding. Too many episodes with rewriting DNA - but the multi-parted adventures at least spread out the incidents.
I'm not convinced that most of the writers on New Who can do the 42 minutes span - set up world, cause crisis, do soap stuff, save the cheerleader save the world. Whedon's writers on Firefly seem to be able to play with nine major characters, do as much world building and not leave me with the all over too easily stuff.
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Date: 2007-10-23 11:48 am (UTC)I'm not convinced that most of the writers on New Who can do the 42 minutes span - set up world, cause crisis, do soap stuff, save the
cheerleader save theworld. Whedon's writers on Firefly seem to be able to play with nine major characters, do as much world building and not leave me with the all over too easily stuff.